Businesses are exploring new delivery models to support this increased collaboration. They are considering a variety of models, such as on premises, cloud (public/private), and/or hybrid, to gain flexibility, simplified management, and more consistent services. They are also considering a variety of infrastructure options like dedicated, hosted, and/or virtualized. Cisco®...

Video communications and videoconferencing have been a part of corporate life for decades. It already is a staple of executive conference rooms, and many larger organizations maintain in-house or contracted video capabilities for special events and presentations. Now, thanks to easy-to-use technology and affordable options, a wide range of employees...

As the workforce becomes more mobile and distributed, leaders recognize the benefits and growing impact of video as a key part of business collaboration. Video is becoming more pervasive. Cisco Collaboration Meeting Rooms (CMR) brings together our industry-leading video conferencing infrastructure and proven, scalable, WebEx cloud...

Data has never been more of a priority to enterprises than it is now. Demand for content and the generation of huge amounts of data pose opportunities but also challenges, as it can be overwhelming in quantity and highly fragmented.Read more..

This white paper explores data loss from a contrarian point of view - exploring the top 7 shortcuts you can take to ensure that you lose your data. Since a fundamental responsibility of any information technology professional, as well as any C-level executive, is to ensure that the data upon...

Businesses face volatility everywhere they look. Increasing globalization is a major factor, with economic and environmental issues in one part of the world readily impacting supply and demand elsewhere. Making a successful shift to perpetual planning helps employees bridge the gap between innovation and your ability to support related efforts....

Building a productive workplace with Microsoft Lync and HP. HP delivers the complete, end-to-end unified communications and collaboration solutions and services you need to improve decision making, increase customer satisfaction, and drive business results. HP Flex-Bundles for UCC with Microsoft Lync 2013 get you up and running quickly, and help...

Emails, phone calls, and in-person meetings remain fundamental to how many large organizations communicate—internally and externally. However, the emergence of collaborative technologies is enabling customers, competitors and employees to innovate, disrupt and challenge the ways in which work gets done and value is created. This report produced with WSJ. Custom...

Every day, emails flood our inbox: tasks are left undone, messages go unanswered, and meetings overwhelm us. But new technology is anticipating user needs and improving productivity. Watch this vodcast to learn why email must evolve and how social analytics are being used to understand and cater for individual working...

The 2014 edition of the CISO Assessment evaluates the current state of security leadership and what leaders expect to face in the next three to five years. Our research pinpoints what worries today’s security leaders and what they can do to manage the approaching uncertainties. Read More..

Incidents of web application security breaches that result in data theft are growing in frequency and severity, making it critical for organizations to take immediate steps to examine the security measures they have in place, assess vulnerabilities and act to protect the business. Read More..

Ponemon Institute conducted 1:1 confidential interviews with 25 IT security practitioners from U.S. companies for this independent study of QRadar SIEM users. Figures presented include total costs to acquire, deploy and run QRadar. Read More..

This report is based on cyber security event data that IBM Managed Security Services collected between April 2012 and March 2013 in the course of monitoring client security devices and data derived from responding to and performing forensics on cyber security incidents. Read More..

As the industry advances in its exploration for new stocks of crude and gas, we are seeing new complexities that impact engineering designs and also create a demand for designs that contribute to improved operations at greater depths. This webcast will illustrate how a multi-vendor, globally distributed engineering project utilized...

Known for extracting meaning and 'operational intelligence' out of mountains of customer machine data, San Francisco-based Splunk knew it had a challenge. The big data software company needed a better and more secure way to track its intellectual property (IP). Previously, Splunk's documents were stored in several consumer cloud services....

Are you delivering products that your customers really need, or what they say they want? According to fresh research from Jama and Forrester Consulting, 50% of business leaders are giving customers what they think they want but that fail to meet their real needs. Knowing the difference can be what...

For computer networks, digital identities are the keys to the kingdom. Your identity credentials open doors to your corporate network, your medical records, your bank account, and even all your private communications. Today, the very concept of digital identity is under fire. Every week, we read about a new...

A variety of technological, demographic and cultural forces are converging at this unique moment in history and stand poised to revolutionize the workplace of the future. Customers are demanding the ability to access the marketplace from anywhere, anytime and on any device; newer employees now expect the flexibility to collaborate...

Polycom and Quocirca surveyed over 800 business video conferencing users around the world on the state of video adoption. The global findings have identified the top six key things to consider when creating a highly collaborative video culture. And it is not just about reducing travel!Download this infographic to discover...

Selling is not easy, especially under pressure. Pressure changes how the brain functions; it diminishes our ability to think, make decisions and connect with others. That’s why the ability to manage pressure is one of the things that sets high-performing sales people and sales leaders apart. And it’s one of...

A*Star had high levels of user discontent and not enough computational resources for the population of users or the number of research projects. Platform LSF acted as the single unifying workload scheduler and helped rapidly increase resource utilization.

Today's dynamic business requirements cannot be effectively served by traditional segmented and siloed IT infrastructures. This technical bulletin discusses how the OpenStack project was created to respond to new requirements for an open, massively scalable, cloud operating system capable of supporting today's dynamic "cloud-aware" applications.
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For organizations opening their systems to large numbers of internal and external users, IBM solutions meet the scalable identity management, security and compliance needs of both the business and its end users with control over permissions and other user access functions.

Building on the 2012 Finding a Strategic Voice IBM study, CAI interviewed 41 executives with information security responsibilities to identify behavior and practices that could strengthen the role and influence of security leaders.

This report is based on cyber security event data that IBM Managed Security Services collected between April 2012 and March 2013 in the course of monitoring client security devices and data derived from responding to and performing forensics on cyber security incidents.

Cybercriminals rely upon increasingly sophisticated techniques to steal the credentials of online banking customers, and then reuse them to take over the victim’s account and perform fraudulent transactions such as transferring money to new destinations. IBM Security Trusteer solutions offer multiple layers of protection across devices and the fraud lifecycle....

IBM Security Identity Governance is designed to help organizations effectively manage identities and application access by bridging the gaps across compliance, business and IT infrastructure operations. As a result, organizations can help reduce the risk of fraud, conflicts of duties and human error in business processes.

Phasing out older hardware, operating systems or eliminating outdated versions of Oracle® that may require expensive extended support contracts can be an effective way to control operational costs, but can also present a new set of challenges. Learn how you can ensure migration success by following the established best practices...

Your business relies on data analytics for business intelligence, but if the data isn't up to date, the analytics are worthless. In this technical brief, see how to replicate real-time data, whether it’s onsite, remote or cloud.

The 2014 State of DevOps Report by Puppet Labs, IT Revolution Press and ThoughtWorks is an analysis of more than 9,200 survey responses from technical professionals around the world, making this the largest and most comprehensive DevOps study to date. As the first scientific study of the relationship between...

While spreadsheets are widely used for statistical analysis, they are useful only to a certain point. When used for a task they’re not designed to perform, or for a task beyond the limit of their capabilities, using spreadsheets can be risky. Read this paper to learn about more powerful yet...

Making an online presentation has its unique challenges — but there are also countless opportunities for today’s savvy sales professional. Join Tim Wackel as he shares ideas on how to grow your sales (without growing your frequent flyer account). Attend this on-demand webinar to learn how to: Plan and...

Only IBM and Intel bring real-time intelligence to the Internet of Things. Finally, your business can reliably store, access and analyze data from billions of connected devices on the edge—for example, in smart homes, autos or commercial buildings—and answer the toughest questions, faster than ever.

Technology changes in the blink of an eye. New products or services are introduced and older versions are obsolete almost immediately. The convergence of Mobile, Big Data, and the Cloud is setting the stage for a new way of working, collaborating and leveraging business information. Learn more about how you...

Polycom surveyed 5,000 business professionals from all job levels around the world that focused on collaboration challenges to support a mobile and flexible working environment. Download this survey to learn what these Senior IT professionals say are their biggest remote collaboration challenges and discover the strategies they deploy to...

To better understand the rising security challenges associated with integrating mobile devices into business operations, Cisco recently conducted an international survey that explored the attitudes and experiences of end users worldwide. This survey provides insights on how best to approach providing your workers with productive, flexible, and secure network access...

Video Conferencing as a fundamental tool for businesses to enhance communication and collaboration between employees, partners and customers. With video conferencing becoming a core component of IT infrastructure that enables communication and collaboration, businesses are looking to providers of telephony, business applications and network infrastructure services to include this capability...

This buyer’s guide can help you select the right identity and access management solution to successfully manage and control user access within, across and between organizations. The guide outlines the most common identity and access management challenges organizations face from the perspective of CSOs, IT operations staff, line-of-business managers and...

Today’s consumers are on the move, and with mobile devices accounting for nearly 20 percent of site sales heading into the 2014 holiday season, creating compelling mobile experiences is no longer just a nice-to-have option. Read this research report from Aberdeen Group to get secrets on how targeted push notifications...

Does arriving at work feel like walking through the very gates of Hell into an office full of unproductive and frustrated people? Read this eBook to learn how your organization can escape the 9 levels of work hell. Get the eBook now.

Join us for this LIVE event! Thursday, October 2, 2014 10 AM (PDT) / 1 PM (EDT) Nobody likes to deliver bad news, discuss a sensitive subject or talk about a project or meeting that's gone wrong. The mere thought of these conversations can fill you with anxiety and distract...

Confidence in information is vital for business users who make impactful decisions based on analytical insights. While easy to define, confidence has proven difficult to measure and visualize. To address this need, Aberdeen Group has developed the Information Confidence Calculator (ICC).

This Aberdeen research report details the research and methodology of the Information Confidence Calculator (ICC). The ICC is a tool to score and visualize trust in customer data used for various types of decisions. This report introduces the ICC and offers guidance on how to use the tool and your...

Business Intelligence (BI) has become a mandatory part of every enterprise’s decision-making fabric. Unfortunately in many cases, with this rise in popularity, came a significant and disturbing complexity. Many BI environments began to have a myriad of moving parts: data warehouses and data marts deployed on multiple platforms and technologies...

Your business relies on data analytics for business intelligence, but if the data isn't up to date, the analytics are worthless. In this technical brief, see how to replicate real-time data, whether it’s onsite, remote or cloud.

Emails, phone calls, and in-person meetings remain fundamental to how many large organizations communicate—internally and externally. However, the emergence of collaborative technologies is enabling customers, competitors and employees to innovate, disrupt and challenge the ways in which work gets done and value is created. This report produced with WSJ. Custom...

Incidents of web application security breaches that result in data theft are growing in frequency and severity, making it critical for organizations to take immediate steps to examine the security measures they have in place, assess vulnerabilities and act to protect the business. Read More..

As the industry advances in its exploration for new stocks of crude and gas, we are seeing new complexities that impact engineering designs and also create a demand for designs that contribute to improved operations at greater depths. This webcast will illustrate how a multi-vendor, globally distributed engineering project utilized...

State-of-the-art asset management is critical in industries such as oil and gas exploration and production, oil refining and gas processing, and utilities that rely heavily on expensive and aging physical assets. Among other benefits, effective asset management reduces costs and risks, improves process flows and business continuity, increases profit margins,...

Contract and project management is a significant challenge in the energy and engineering industries. Supplier Exchange will allow participants to define workflows and collaboration methods that improve contract management by greatly reducing the time and cost to find and validate relevant information.

On a Smarter Planet, information-centric processes are exploding in growth. In order to excel in today’s competitive environment, businesses need to support these processes, and efficiently manage the massive volumes of data they drive, with minimal risk. The mainframe has always been the IT industry's leading platform for transaction processing,...

Becoming a mobile enterprise is about re-imagining your business around constantly connected customers and employees. The speed of mobile adoption dictates transformational innovation rather than incremental innovation. Mobile really is a disruptive innovation. Read More..

Moving to a cloud environment is no longer just an information technology IT strategy it’s a business decision as well. Cloud is motivating business and IT to emerge from their respective silos. This paper discusses how to convert cloud’s considerable benefits into business opportunities with an astute understanding of your...

With 2014 and 2015 being the years of open networking pilots and deployments, respectively, much focus was on the upcoming announcements of high-density 40GbE spine switches from Cisco’s Nexus 9000 series, Arista’s 7500E and HP’s 11900/12900. The new generation of hybrid switching leverages the forwarding and power efficiency gains afforded...

Despite the recent negative headlines, a cloud enhanced data protection service is an ideal use of cloud storage. It provides off-site, geographically dispersed data protection so that in the event of a site or even regional disaster, an organization’s digital assets can still be recovered in a timely manner. The...

Does your in-house creative team get as much respect as a chihuahua in a dogsled race? No matter how hard you work, there is still a perception that all your team does is design SWAG and pick out brand colors? Get this whitepaper to learn 5 ways to prove the...

Are you finding it hard to secure time to do inspired, creative work? Read this white paper to learn 4 simple strategies you can adopt to eliminate time-sucking distractions and spend your time where it really matters doing visionary work. Get the whitepaper.

The 5 worst things a creative can say. Sound familiar? “Just trying to keep my head above water.” Phrases like this may sound innocent, but actually signify some serious productivity problems. Get this ebook to learn about other phrases and how to avoid drowning in your work. Get the ebook.

Known for extracting meaning and 'operational intelligence' out of mountains of customer machine data, San Francisco-based Splunk knew it had a challenge. The big data software company needed a better and more secure way to track its intellectual property (IP). Previously, Splunk's documents were stored in several consumer cloud services....

As tablet computers have grown in popularity, it has become clear that not all tablets are suited for every work task or environment. In particular, tablets designed primarily for consumers may not have the power, functionality or ruggedness required of devices used in some non-office settings. Those settings can range...

Organisations must empower people to be productive anywhere, from any device, while fortifying information security. A complete enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution addresses apps and devices and keeps company data safe.
Find out how customers across diverse industries put EMM to work.

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